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conchology

/kɒŋˈkɒləd͡ʒi/

conchology noun: the study of molluscs and their shells.

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Noun

conchology (usually uncountable, plural conchologies)

  1. (usually) The study of molluscs and their shells.
    • "Thank goodness, I am not a child," said Lady Mandeville, turning over a collection of those juvenile tomes, which are to make the rising generation so much wiser than their grandfathers or grandmothers—catechisms of conchology, geology, mathematical questions for infants, geography, astronomy...1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 94
    • The least dreadful among the essays stacked and waiting to be corrected would be that of young Master Jefferson Davis, who when imprisoned by Andrew Johnson in 1866 will ask his physician at Fortress Monroe to procure a few volumes of "conchology, geology, or botany," he desiring to commune with...2011, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead
  2. (usually) The hobby of shell collecting.

conchology meaning in Tamil and Tagalog

conchology in Tamil

சிப்பி ஓட்டியல்

conchology in Tagalog

study of molluscs
dalubkabibihan

Forms of conchology

pluralconchologies

Origin of conchology

From conch or Ancient Greek κόγχη (kónkhē) + -ology.

Words formed from conchology

Questions about conchology

What does conchology mean?
Conchology means the study of molluscs and their shells.
What is conchology in Tamil?
Conchology in Tamil is சிப்பி ஓட்டியல். See Conchology meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is conchology?
Conchology is a noun.
How do you pronounce conchology?
Conchology is pronounced /kɒŋˈkɒləd͡ʒi/.
What is the plural of conchology?
The plural of conchology is conchologies.

Words near conchology in the dictionary

  1. conchologists
  2. conchologize
  3. conchologized
  4. conchologizes
  5. conchologizing
  6. conchology
  7. conchometry
  8. conchos
  9. conchospiral
  10. conchospirals
  11. conchospore

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Adapted from Wiktionary: conchology (page history and authors); conchology (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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